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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sun-in-a-box-a-seminar-with-asegun-henry-tickets-55405577574This talk will introduce Asegun Henry’s work on thermal energy grid storage, a recently developed grid-scaled electricity storage concept that uses multi-junction photovoltaics—also affectionately called “sun in a box.” The approach involves the storage of electricity as extremely high temperature heat in a liquid metal, along with subsequent conversion of the heat back to electricity. It is well acknowledged that such an approach incurs a major thermodynamic penalty on efficiency, but the extremely low cost of storage (10 times lower than Li-ion batteries) outweighs this penalty leading to a net improvement in cost effectiveness better than pumped hydro. In this talk, Henry will review the concept and the work done to date on its development.
This event is open to MIT students, faculty, and staff only.
About the speaker:
Asegun Henry directs the Atomistic Simulation & Energy Research Group at MIT, where he is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Prior to his time at MIT, Henry was an assistant professor in mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech. Henry’s primary research is in heat transfer, with an emphasis on understanding energy transport storage and conversion at the atomic level, and the development of new energy technologies to mitigate climate change.
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